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Cyril Walker
Professional golfer

Cyril Walker

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Professional golfer
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Manchester
Place of death
Hackensack, New Jersey
Age
55 years
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Biography

Cyril Walker (September 18, 1892 – August 6, 1948) was an English professional golfer born in Manchester who emigrated to the United States in 1914.
Walker won the 1924 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Country Club, while playing out of Englewood Golf Club in New Jersey. He beat defending champion Bobby Jones by three strokes. This was his only top ten finish in seven appearances at the U.S. Open. He was a small man, weighing only 118 pounds (54 kg).
Walker won six PGA events between 1917 and 1930. He also won the Indiana Open in 1916.
In 1928, he became the pro at the Saddle River Golf and Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey.

Career demise

Walker's slow pace of play, combined with his sometimes-combative personality, eventually made him unpopular with fellow players and tournament sponsors. This hastened his exit from the then-nascent professional golfers' tournament circuit. While a club pro at Saddle River in 1933, he was arrested for destroying the signs of a neighboring course.

An alcohol addiction further hastened his downward spiral during the 1930s and he ultimately found himself in a near-destitute condition working as a caddy in Florida at the Miami Beach municipal course in 1940, and later as a dishwasher.

Walker died of pleural pneumonia in a Hackensack, New Jersey jail cell where he had gone for shelter.

Professional wins

PGA Tour wins (6)

  • 1917 (1) one win
  • 1921 (1) Pennsylvania Open Championship
  • 1922 (1) one win
  • 1923 (1) one win
  • 1924 (1) U.S. Open
  • 1930 (1) Miami International Four-Ball (with Clarence Gamber)

Other wins

  • 1916 Indiana Open

Major championships

Wins (1)

YearChampionship54 holesWinning scoreMarginRunner-up
1924U.S. OpenTied for lead+9 (74-74-74-75=297)3 strokesUnited States Bobby Jones

Results timeline

Tournament1916191719181919
U.S. OpenDNPNTNTDNP
The Open ChampionshipNTNTNTNT
PGA ChampionshipQFNTNTDNP
Tournament1920192119221923192419251926192719281929
U.S. OpenDNP13T40231T47T55DNPDNPDNP
The Open ChampionshipDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPT14DNPDNPDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNPSFDNPR16DNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP
Tournament19301931193219331934
Masters TournamentNYFNYFNYFNYF61
U.S. OpenDNPDNPDNPCUTDNP
The Open ChampionshipDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNPQFDNPDNPDNP

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

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